Robot Camp is a collective and network of artists. We support and publish many creative endeavors, including, but not limited to, anthologies, single issue comics, graphic novels, prose, and more. We are interested in creating physical objects. Find out more at www.robotcampcomics.com.

Jordan Stillman is a writer and editor from Boston, MA. She is the Co-Director of Robot Camp and enjoys hot cups of tea, cats, and singing loudly.

LJ-Baptiste is an artist from Dorchester, MA. He writes and draws comics both for print and web. His current project is his ongoing webcomic series COMIXSCAPE, which can be read at www.comixscape.net.

Neil Johnson is a writer and cartoonist who works and lives in Boston, MA. You can find his most recent work at www.neiltheghost.com.

11am-1pm – Shelli Paroline & Braden Lamb

Braden Lamb grew up in Seattle, studied film in upstate New York, and learned about epic sagas in Iceland and Norway. He now lives and works in Salem, Massachusetts with his wife and art partner Shelli Paroline. Together they have illustrated the Eisner Award-winning Adventure Time comics and The Midas Flesh. Braden is also the colorist for several New York Times best-selling graphic novels, including Sisters, The Baby-Sitters Club, and Broxo. bradenlamb.com

Shelli Paroline escaped early on into the world of cartoons and science fiction, and from there launched into a career creating comics. She and her husband Braden Lamb form an Eisner Award-winning art team, collaborating on such series as Adventure Time and The Midas Flesh. Shelli is Co-Director of the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo an annual event highlighting the best in new and local sequential art. She lives and works in Salem, Massachusetts. shelliparoline.com

1-2:30pm – Jerel Dye and Barry Corbett

Jerel Dye is a cartoonist, illustrator, and artist living and working in the Boston area. He has been creating art and comics since 2005 and has produced several self-published mini comics and has created comics stories for anthologies like Inbound, Minimum Paige, Hellbound, and the award winning Little Nemo/Winsor McCay tribute Dream Another Dream. In 2012, he received the MICE comics grant for his mini-comic From the Clouds.

His first graphic novel Pigs Might Fly is due to be released in 2017, by First Second books. Much of his art stems from a deep interest in science and technology though frequently contains a healthy dose of wonder. Jerel Dye received his BFA from Umass Dartmouth in Painting, and his MFA at MassArt in the Studio for Interrelated media. Jerel is also a freelance designer and teaches courses in drawing, cartooning and comics in Massachusetts.

Barry released Embrace the Pun in 2006, following by Revenge of the Pun, and The Pun Rides Again. Kitty Nirvana (2008) won a medal at the IPPY Awards. It’s a Cat Thing was released in 2012. Barry publishes Comic Books under the imprint Griffin Comics; Gormon, Star Crossed, and Terminal Velocity.

Terminal Velocity is an autobiographical comic told in a series of short vignettes covering the death of his brother in childhood, his forays into scuba diving and hang gliding, the violence in ice hockey, and his comical attempts to become a skydiver. Find his work at www.corbettfeatures.com.

(W) Mark Siegel, Alexis Siegel (A) Mark Siegel, Xanthe Bouma, Matt Rockefeller, Boya Sun
The Five Worlds are on the brink of extinction unless five ancient and mysterious beacons are lit. When war erupts, three unlikely heroes will discover there’s more to themselves – and more to their worlds – than meets the eye! The clumsiest student at the Sand Dancer Academy, Oona Lee is a fighter with a destiny bigger than she could ever imagine. A boy from the poorest slums, An Tzu has a surprising gift and a knack for getting out of sticky situations. Star athlete Jax Amboy is beloved by an entire galaxy, but what good is that when he has no real friends? When these three kids are forced to team up on an epic quest, it will take not one, not two, but 5 Worlds to contain all the magic and adventure! Available in softcover and hardcover editions.

(W) Saladin Ahmed (A/CA) Christian Ward
THE KING OF THE INHUMANS’ FIRST SOLO SERIES!
Black Bolt imprisoned! But by who? And where exactly? The answers to both will shock you! But to learn those answers, Black Bolt must first win a fight to the death with a fellow inmate – The Absorbing Man! Award-winning science fiction writer Saladin Ahmed (Throne of the Crescent Moon) crafts a story as trippy as it is action-packed, with truly mind-bending art from the one and only Christian Ward!

The Eternal Empress has waged war against the countries of Saia for over one hundred years and now her sights are set on the last country standing. Within the brutal Empire’s workforce, a young woman receives strange visions that give her the courage to escape her fate…or run straight toward it.

(W) Gengoroh Tagame (A/CA) Gengoroh Tagame
From one of Japan’s most notable graphic novelists: a heartbreaking and redemptive tale of mourning and acceptance. Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo, married to wife Natsuki, father to young daughter Kana. Their lives are suddenly upended with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares himself the widower of Yaichi’s estranged gay twin, Ryoji. Mike is on a quest to explore Ryoji’s past, and the family reluctantly but dutifully takes him in. What follows is an unprecedented journey into the largely still-closeted Japanese gay culture: how it’s been affected by the West, and how the next generation has the chance to change the preconceptions of and prejudices against it.

(W) Junko Mizuno (A/CA) Junko Mizuno
Ravina the Witch, from the supremely talented visual artist Junko Mizuno, is a dark, fantastical illustrated tale featuring talking animals, giant birds and dancing mushrooms. When Ravina is given a magic wand by a mysterious old woman, she turns from a lonely girl living in a dump… into a witch?

(W) Scott Westerfeld (A/CA) Alex Puvilland
Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. The Spill claimed Addison’s parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn’t spoken since. Addison provides for her sister by photographing the Zone’s twisted attractions on illicit midnight rides. Art collectors pay top dollar for these bizarre images, but getting close enough for the perfect shot can mean death – or worse. When an eccentric collector makes a million-dollar offer, Addison breaks her own hard-learned rules of survival and ventures farther than she has ever dared. Within the Spill Zone, Hell awaits – and it seems to be calling Addison’s name.